Modern History of China
by Jiang Tingfu
About This Novel
Does Lin Zexu, who destroyed opium in Humen, really advocate reform? The Opium War was such a disastrous defeat, why didn't the Chinese immediately reform like the Japanese? How biased is our understanding of Li Hongzhang, who signed various treaties that undermined his power and humiliated his country? Why is the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 a war that should have been avoided? This book will give you the answers one by one. The historical framework and chronological history system constructed by this book once led the trend of modern history research and were praised by later researchers. It is called the pioneering work of modern Chinese history research. Jiang Tingfu believed that the military defeat in the Opium War was not the fatal injury to the nation. It was the failure to understand the reason for the defeat after the defeat that was the fatal injury to the nation. As every Chinese, we should understand this true original history, the truth about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, why the treaty ports were opened, the failure of the Beiyang Navy, etc. How did these humiliations arise in the process of modernization? In fact, many of the pain may have been brought by us Chinese ourselves.
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Official(1)Scraped 7d ago
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I have to say, this book is really not that good. The difference between it and Xu Zhongyue's Modern Chinese History is not even a tiny bit different. At least that little bit of 64 was not included.
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Official(1)Scraped 7d ago
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I have to say, this book is really not that good. The difference between it and Xu Zhongyue's Modern Chinese History is not even a tiny bit different. At least that little bit of 64 was not included.
